Drillers have combined old technologies into new methods of extracting this natural gas from the previously untapped soft rock layer a mile or more beneath the surface.

在原有的钻井技术中加入新方法后，天然气可以从离地表一英里甚至更深的未曾开发的柔软岩层中被开采出来。

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In the Grand Canyon State, every license plate reminded us that water changes the face of the land, splitting open rock desert like a peach, leaving mile-deep gashes of infinite hue.

这个大峡谷之州每一个车牌照都提醒我们：水改变了世界面貌，像使桃子开裂一样水劈开了石漠，留下了若干个色彩各异的数英里深的裂缝。

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Nasa scientists had anticipated that the impact would throw up a six-mile-high cloud of lunar dust and rock which could be scanned for evidence of frozen water.

美国航天局的科学家曾希望这个撞击会抛起六英里高的月球尘埃和碎片云，通过对其扫描，可以找到结冰水的证据。

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The Bakken formation is a 25, 000 square mile chunk of rock that underlies parts of North Dakota, Montana and Saskatchewan.

FORBES: Forget Florida My Dear, This Year We Shall Winter in The Bakkens

Backtrack and drive up Steens Loop Road to the mountain's eastern rim, which drops off in a mile-high rock cliff.

FORBES: A Desert Where?

When his shipmates--fellow privateers and sociopaths in their own right--had had enough of him, they put him ashore in 1704 on a 12-mile stretch of volcanic rock off the coast of Chile.

FORBES: Castaway